This book is an easy-to-use reference to the key terms used in illustration. Each entry comprises a brief textual definition along with a drawing or visual example of the point under discussion. Supplementary contextual information is also included.

Welcome to The Visual Dictionary of lllustration, a book that provides textual definitions and visual explanations for common terms found in the key areas of illustration and pertinent entries from related arts.

This book aims to provide clear definitions to the myriad of terms used within illustration. It includes explanations of commonly misused terms; the difference between doodles and drawings or ornithological and conceptual illustrations; and the significance of key figures in the world of illustration. The Visual Dictionary of lUustration provides visual explanations from the traditional and the classic, to the contemporary and experimental.

Prologue

How to get the most out

of this book

Introduction

The Dictionary

A

Abstract

Absurdity

Acrylic

Advertising

Agent

Allegory

Almanacs

Alphabet Books

Alternative Comics

Anatomical Illustration

Animation

Annuals

Anthropomorphism

Appropriation

Architectural Illustration

Archive

Art Deco

Art Director

Art Nouveau

Arts and Crafts Movement

Art School

Assemblage

Authorship

Avant-garde

B

Badges

Bayeux Tapestry

Beardsley, Aubrey

Bewick, Thomas

Blab!

Blake, Wiiliam

Book Art

Book Jacket

Botanical Illustration

Brainstorming

Brandywine School

Brief

C

CaldecotL Randolph

Campaign

Caricature

Cartoon

Chapbook

Character

Chiaroscuro

Chiidren, s Books

Client

Collaboration

Collage

Colour

Comics

Commentary

Commission

Communication Skills

Composition

Computer-generated Imagery(CGI)

Conceptual Illustration

Copyright

Corporate Illustration

Crane, Walter

Cruikshank, George

Cubism

Cutaways

D

Dada

Decoration

Diagram

Digital Revolution

Disney, Walt

Doodle

Dor6, Gustave

Drawing

E

Editorial Illustration

Educational Illustration

Embroidery

Encyclopedia

Entertainment

Environmental Illustration

Etching

Ethics

Experimentation

Expressionism

F

Fantasy

Fashion Illustration

Felt-tip Pens

Fin de Siecle

Flyers

Folio Society

Folk Art

Frottage

G

Genres

GiUray, James

Golden Age

Graffiti

Graphic Design

Graphic Novels

Greenaway, Kate

Greetings Cards

H

Hand-drawn Type

Herbals

Hieroglyphics

Historical Illustration

Hogarth, William

numour

Hyperrealism

I

Ideas

Illuminated Manuscripts

Illustrated Ape, The

Illustrated London News,The

Imagination

Information

Inspiration

Internet

Interpretation

J

Juxtaposition

K

Kirby, Jack

Kitsch

Knitted Illustration

Kollwitz, Kathe

Kramers Ergot

L

Le Gun

Life Drawing

Line

Linocut

Lithography

Live Painting

Livre d'artiste

Logo

M

Magazines

Manga

Maps

Marketing

Mark Making

Masereel, Frans

Medical Illustration

Merchandising

Mixed Media

Mono Print

Mosaic

Murals

Music Graphics

N

Narrative

Natural Sciences

New Yorker, The

Notebook

O

Observational Drawing

Organisations

Ornithological Illustration

Outsider Art

P

Packaging

Paint

Paper

Pen and Ink

Pencil

Personal Projects

Personification

Perspective

Persuasion

Photocopier

Photography

Photomontage

Pictogram

Pitch

Polish Posters

Political Illustration

Pop,ups

Portfolio

Portrait

Postcards

Poster, The

Potter, Beatrix

Printmaking

Psychedelic

Pulp Fiction

Punch

Punk

Push Pin Studios

R

Raster

Rebus

Reference

Renaissance

Reportage

Representational

Research

Retro

Rockwell, Norman

Romanticism

S

Satire

Scanner

Science Fiction

Scrapbooks

Scratchboard

Screen Printing

Self Promotion

Self Publishing

Sequential Illustration

Serendipity

Silhouette

Simplicissimus

Skateboard

Sketchbook

Software

Speech Bubble

Spot Illustration

Stamps

Steinberg, Saul

Stencil

Storyboard

Storytelling

Street Art

Studio

Style

Surrealism

Symbolism

T

Tattoo

Technical Illustration

Television Graphics

Tenniel, Sir John

Text and Image

Textiles

Three-dimensional projects

Thumbnail

Title Sequences

Toys

Traditional Illustration

Travel Illustration

Trends

Trompe l'oeil

T-shirt

Typography

U

Ukiyo-e

Urban Vinyl

V

Varoom

Vector

Vernacular

Victorian I11ustration

Video Jockeying

Vienna Secession

Vignette

Virtual Worlds

Visual Impact

Visual Language

Visual Metaphor

W

War Illustration

Watercolour

Websites

Where the Wild Things Are

Whimsical

Window Display

Wit

Woodcut

Wood Engraving

Working Process

Y

Yellow Book, The

Yellow Submarine

Z

Zeitgeist

Zines

The Details

The Timeline

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Index